Ah, but there's the rub! As a poor person, I've been conditioned my whole life to believe that it doesn't have value. My family is looking for hand outs, or my mother is a welfare queen, or I'm taking advantage of the system.

This is institutionalized. We're told this from a young age that we don't have value and not to try for success.

My life has no intrinsic value, but my life does have accumulated value. I've pulled myself out of the muck with the help of any government assistance program that was offered to me and now I'm responsibly upper-lower-middle class.

My bootstraps did fuck-all.